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Director of Sustainability

Oura · Hybrid - San Francisco, California · Hybrid

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About Oura

Enhance your health journey with Oura. The Oura Ring provides round-the-clock insights into sleep, fitness, and stress for wellness. Now HSA/FSA eligible. Backed by ICONIQ.

About the role

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in sustainability, responsible supply chain, product sustainability, environmental strategy, manufacturing, operations, or a related field
  • Significant experience working with hardware, consumer electronics, wearables, or another product-based business
  • Experience defining and executing an enterprise sustainability strategy with product and technical teams
  • Experience building a new function, operating model, or cross-functional program
  • A strong understanding of product lifecycle impact, manufacturing, contract manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, materials, packaging, reverse logistics, and end of life
  • Experience with carbon accounting, emissions reduction, lifecycle assessment, supplier sustainability, environmental and social due diligence, and sustainability reporting
More about this role

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

We are looking for a Director, Sustainability to lead Oura’s enterprise sustainability strategy and build the systems that will support it.

This is a new director-level role and the first dedicated sustainability leader at Oura. The role sits in Supply Chain because many of Oura’s most important sustainability decisions involve materials, suppliers, manufacturing, logistics, packaging, returns, recycling, and product end of life. Supply Chain gives the role a direct connection to the teams and partners that can turn strategy...

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